So, Stevenbard, I have asked this question to folks who show the sort of disdain for the ACA that you have. The US spent well over $8000 per year per capita on health care in 2009, prior to implementation of the ACA. What should we have been doing? How would you propose cutting health care costs? Or is it O.K. for us to spend this sort of coin?

The following commentary by Ezra Klein in today's Washington Post is an interesting one about the ACA focusing on what it will cost some of us for health insurance premiums. As I've found so often in the past, Klein's take on things is pragmatic and straightforward in nature.

What I find amazing is that so few folks understand that the ACA is really an insurance reform law. Health care costs what it costs. The ACA really just rearranges how these costs are distributed.

We understand that ... and the fact that insurance costs are increasing very dramatically due to the ACA, on top of any increases in the cost of medicine. We also resent the holy hell out of a president who lied to a Congressman to get his deciding vote, who got caught on tape admitting that his now-10-15-year goal is socialized medicine (literally, taxpayer-funded government-managed health care), and who we now know lied and/or was totally wrong about many major elements of O'care.

What I find amazing is that so few folks understand that the ACA is really an insurance reform law. Health care costs what it costs. The ACA really just rearranges how these costs are distributed.

We understand that ... and the fact that insurance costs are increasing very dramatically due to the ACA, on top of any increases in the cost of medicine. We also resent the holy hell out of a president who lied to a Congressman to get his deciding vote, who got caught on tape admitting that his now-10-15-year goal is socialized medicine (literally, taxpayer-funded government-managed health care), and who we now know lied and/or was totally wrong about many major elements of O'care.

Part of me thinks that it is common knowledge w/in the White House that O'care will fail under the mass size and confusion of trying to administer the program. But that's no problem, because by then the commoners (us) will be so desprate for something simpler, that a single payer plan will seem like an improvement.
The old bait and switch.
But that might not work out either, the WH seems to be pretty poor at predicting how the commoners will react. Afterall Obamacare is not an example of freedom._________________I don't drink the 'cool' aid, I drink tequila, it's more honest.

Especially with the IRS in charge. You poor uninformed lefties will not comprehend the information coming out about that operation even before the full investigation hits the fan. People who should be heading for federal prison are getting extended paid vacations and six-figure performance bonuses, and links to Holder and the White House are solidifying as we type. EVERY Cincinnati IRS worker whose political affiliation is available via public records is registered left of the GOP, thus not generally "hamstrung" by having burdensome moral values.

I've witnessed this kind of BS first-hand; it's common among people with power and no morals. Some instances I was able to stop via whistleblowing, one wasn't worth falling on my sword about, and some I found less obvious and much more clever ways to stop.

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